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The Ferengi were fun but when they got to the Borg, that was great!

For better or worse, TNG has to maintain continuity with TOS. When I watched the first episode, Q comes on, accusing Picard and the ship as a proxy for all manner of historical crimes. Bad enough he blames the Cold War on an intolerance of "differing economic systems", but then he brings up capital punishment. Picard responds that "we had gotten rid of that long ago" or some such. Pardon me? Mr. Spock was up for a CODE 4 violation in "The Cage", a kind of central all time Star Trek episode. The penalty if found guilty was death. That's a pretty big slip up in Episode 1, and needlessly so.

They could have redeemed themselves a few episodes later when Wesley didn't keep off the grass and was to be executed on the hedonistic planet a few episodes later, by letting it play out. That would have shown Ricard's respect for different civilizations. But no, he has to do the Kirk thing and work his way around ... no, ignore ... the Prime Directive.

And bringing the shrink up to the bridge right next to the captain ... sheesh!

I didn't see the two episodes you mentioned, in part because I couldn't connect with the characters in the stories. Great science fiction stories begins with great stories, but most (except the most dystopian, which TNG is NOT) needs characters you can root for and identify with, or at least like. TOS was full of these characters. TNG, not so much in my opinion.

For better or worse, TNG has to maintain continuity with TOS. When I watched the first episode, Q comes on, accusing Picard and the ship as a proxy for all manner of historical crimes. Bad enough he blames the Cold War on an intolerance of "differing economic systems", but then he brings up capital punishment. Picard responds that "we had gotten rid of that long ago" or some such. Pardon me? Mr. Spock was up for a CODE 4 violation in "The Cage", a kind of central all time Star Trek episode. The penalty if found guilty was death. That's a pretty big slip up in Episode 1, and needlessly so.

TNG was infected with the Modern Liberal Politically Correct Bug. Remember when it first started, they had a Female head of security? That's just politically correct stupidity, and that character didn't last long.

There were Two episodes of it I found particularly offensive.

Remember when Riker fell in love with the homosexual Alien? To be fair, the Aliens of that Planet were supposed to be "Sexless" but this one in particularly just happened to look like a beautiful Woman, and other Aliens happen to look either Feminine or Masculine, but the species were supposed to be "neutral", being neither female or male, and so therefore a "neutral" thinking it is female is analogous to a homosexual in normal society.

That's what the writers were going for. You could tell from the dialogue that they were attempting to "normalize" the idea of people not adhering to normal gender roles.

The Second Episode I found particularly offensive is when An Admiral is assigned to the Enterprise to find a research ship that went missing years earlier.

The "Secret Agencies" at the Federation were doing research on a sort of Cloaking device that would allow a ship to "ghost" and go through ordinary matter. They find the ship, and the Admiral attempts to gain possession of it and get it back to the Federation.

Riker deliberately disobeys direct orders, Transmits a signal to enemy forces (Either Klingons or Romulons) and hands the technology over to them, because he takes it upon himself to enforce a Treaty contrary to the direct orders of the Admiral in command.

Rather than be instantly court marshaled and shot, as would anyone who did such a thing in an actual Military organization, Commander Riker is not even given a slap on the hand.